Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr. QuotesIf you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

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Deep Quotes

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent – something like an infant – deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. – Jack Henry Abbott

I’m an ocean, because I’m really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. – Christina Aguilera

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it. – Tori Amos

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

deep quotesEvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live. – Greg Anderson

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. – Theodore Roethke

They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they’re seldom spent in vain. – William Shakespeare

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived. – Henry David Thoreau

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. – William S. Burroughs

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Stupidity Quotes

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.” – Albert Einstein

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.” – Bill Davidsen

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” -Bertrand Russell

“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

stupidity quotes“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.” – Frank Leah

“There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one’s own industry or by the stupidity of others.” – Jean de la Bruyere

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” -Thomas Szasz

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” – Unknown

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” -Bertrand Russell

“Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not” – Frank Zappa

“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.” – George Bernard Shaw

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Best Love Quotes

”Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy. ” Audre Lorde

”It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. ” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

”True love stories never have endings. ” Richard Bach

”In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. ” Erich Fromm

”In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. ” Madame de Stael

”Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ ” Erich Fromm

”Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s. ” Madame de Stael

”If you want to be loved, be lovable. ” Ovid

”Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ” C. S. Lewis

”Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. ” William Arthur Ward

”If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ” Michel de Montaigne

”A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. ” Boethius

”Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ” Maya Angelou

”If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ” A. A. Milne

”A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ” Stendhal

”Love is a better teacher than duty. ” Albert Einstein

”If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. ” Emmet Fox

”If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ” Maya Angelou

”I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. ” George Eliot

”Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. ” Ella Fitzgerald

”I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ” Daphne Rae

”What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ” Nathaniel Hawthorne

”I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. ” Judy Garland

”A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ” Honore de Balzac

”A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. ” Marilyn Monroe

”How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. ” Barbara Pym

”All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. ” Andre Breton

”Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ” Peter Ustinov

”Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ” Albert Einstein

”If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. ” John Lennon

”Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never. ” Charles Caleb Colton

”Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times. ” Rita Rudner

”One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ” Sophocles

”For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ” Judy Garland

”Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. ” Martin Luther King, Jr.

”First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ” George Bernard Shaw

”A life lived in love will never be dull. ” Leo Buscaglia

”Do all things with love. ” Og Mandino

”The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. ” Vincent van Gogh

”Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. ” Samuel Lover

”Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ” Rumi

”Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? ” Richard Bach

”At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ” Plato

”Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. ” C. S. Lewis

”A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ” Thomas Carlyle

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Inspirational Quotes To Live By

“But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you” – Jesus

“There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.” – Proverb

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil.” – Proverb

“The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” – Ray Kroc

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will—his personal responsibility.” – Albert Schweitzer

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” – Thomas Jefferson

“As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” – Andrew Carnegie

“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.” – Helen Keller

“A child miseducated is a child lost.” – John F. Kennedy

“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” – Mother Teresa

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie

“And in the end, through the long ages of our quest for light, it will be found that truth is still mightier than the sword.” – Douglas MacArthur

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” – John Wooden

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.” – John Wooden

“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think of you.” – John Wooden

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington

“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.” – Booker T. Washington

“What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.” – Bodie Thoene

“Perseverance is what happens when you go through a storm with the understanding that storms don’t last forever.” – Christopher S. Esty

“Purpose without passion is like a dictionary without words.” – Christopher S. Esty

“Love is colorblind.” – Christopher S. Esty

“There’s a fine line between doing what we’re meant to do, and doing what we think we should be doing with our lives. Only God can show us the way in which we should walk to fulfill what we are destined for. It is good to dream, but not all dreams are meant to come true. There comes a point when you have to stop dreaming about certain things, and do something practical with your life–to do what you are meant to do.” – Christopher S. Esty

Don’t think of failure as an end, but as one step closer to success. For by failing you now know where not to step next. That’s called progress. – Christopher S. Esty

“Want to see positive changes? Be the change you want to see.” – Christopher S. Esty

“Spiteful people hurt themselves more than they hurt others.” – Christopher S. Esty

“God doesn’t give success to enable people to live large, but to equip them to give largely. Remember the poor and needy.” – Christopher S. Esty

“The more I grow in Christ, the more I realize how small I am. The burdens of the world are too heavy for me to bear. I can’t save the world; and frankly, it isn’t my purpose to do that. I’m simply called to be a light, not a pathway to salvation. So I must choose my battles wisely, and allow Jesus to be the Light of my life every step of the way, that I may go where I can shine most brightly for Him.” – Christopher S. Esty

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Famous Quotes About Life

“May you live all the days of your life!” – Jonathan Swift

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – Earl Nightingale

“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” – Tom Blandi

“Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The possibilities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.” – Katherine Anne Porter

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.” – John F. Kennedy

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.” – Sidney Madwed

“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake” – Henry David Thoreau

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Famous Quotes

“That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzche

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.” – Frank Wilczek

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” – Voltaire

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” – Abraham Lincoln

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Famous Leadership Quotes

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Harold R. McAlindon

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader. – Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. – General Douglas MacArthur

The real leader has no need to lead– he is content to point the way. – Henry Miller

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don’t take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world. – Noah Porter

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. – Aristotle

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr. (from Christian Leadership World)

Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm. – Publilius Syrus

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George Patton

Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Proverb

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. -Horace

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer. – Henry W. Longfellow

I light my candle from their torches. – Robert Burton

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. – Woodrow Wilson

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. – Publius Syrus

A bold onset is half the battle. – Giuseppe Garibaldi

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. – Cornelius Nepos

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose’s egg. – James Thomas

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. – Edmund Spenser

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. – Solon

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. – Napoleon Bonaparte

No man can stand on top because he is put there. – H. H. Vreeland

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. – Ovid

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. – Seneca

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. – Abraham Lincoln

What you cannot enforce do not command. – Sophocles

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place. – Philip Armour

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. – Friedrich Nietzsche

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.) – Latin Proverb

Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself. – Thomas Carlyle

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. – Polybius

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Will Quotes

- “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” – Buddha

- “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

- “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.” – Buddha

- “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha

- “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” – Buddha

- “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” – Buddha

- “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.” – Buddha

- “Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.” – Marilyn Monroe

- “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Work Quotes

- “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller

- “Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.” – Al Capp

- “As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.” – Irvin S. Cobb

- “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert

- “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” – Thomas A. Edison

- “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle

- “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas A. Edison

- “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

- “Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

- “Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?” – J. Paul Getty

- “Great ideas originate in the muscles.” – Thomas A. Edison

- “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing

- “I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” – Richard Nelson Bolles

- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

- “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” – Pablo Picasso

- “It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.” – William Faulkner

- “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank

- “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” – Horace

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